Realizing Lisa was not speaking, Somi's emotion was a little out of control. She continued, "I was afraid you'll be disgusted with your Somi because you couldn't forget those scenarios, so I pretended to be Nancy as soon as I returned from City C!"
"At least, Nancy looks the same with Somi, and in front of you, Nancy is clean..."
Somi began to tremble out of agitation, she did not plan to expose herself like this so soon, but she could not help it when she saw how Lisa treated Jennie.
She pointed at Jennie, her eyes crimson with hatred, as she growled, "Why me? She should be the unlucky one, why is it that I was the one who saved you, but also the one you dislike? This is not fair..."
Jennie was perplexed. She looked at Lisa with an inquiring gaze and asked softly, "What's going on?"
Lisa hugged Jennie tightly and turned to see her pale
face. He comforted her. "It's nothing. I told you, you don't need to know some things!"
He was so protective of Jennie...
Somi shot into a standing position after hearing that. She looked like she was going to tear Jennie to pieces, a dangerously ferocious grin hanging on her face.
"Brother Lisa, if Jennie doesn't exist in this world, will you love me? This woman shouldn't exist in the first place..."
As soon as Lisa heard Somi say those words, his softened gaze sharpened up again. He growled, "Somi, you saved me, and you don't disgust me!"
"However, my promise had never been a romantic one. Jennie had nothing to do with it. If you dare to touch her..."
A sanguine savageness appeared on his face. "Anyone would have endured the same!"
...
Returning to the Hibiscus Garden, the man's expression was calm without a shred of the cold rage he had earlier on.
It was as if he was not the person who experienced the entire scenario from before.
Jennie knew that if Lisa had decided to keep something a
secret, not even her could pry his mouth open. However, there were some things that she could not help but feel like they were scratching at her without her knowing.
After a long silence, Jennie considered her words.
"You knew Somi was alive long before, didn't you?"
Jennie had the reason to believe that Lisa would not be in
the dark for long, but thinking that her conversation with Somi was completely discreet was a naive thought!
"I didn't know for sure. Before this, I was just suspecting it!"
Lisa held the steering wheel with both his hands, his eyes were staring straight ahead, and his voice was slightly coarse. "I was only sure when the Zong He Incident happened!"
Hearing Lisa's explanation, Jennie was slightly surprised.
Her damp eyes looked at Lisa with a silly adorableness that melted Lisa's heart as he peered over with his peripheral vision.
It was deep in the spring season. The road on which the car sped along toward the mansion was decorated with a vivacious green with dots of red mixed in.
Lisa kept his voice slow and composed as he continued
explaining to Jennie.
"I knew Yanni was poisoned. After she was rescued, the medical report mentioned that hallucinogenic components were detected in her body."
"I thought about it, if she took drugs like this or if she was forced to take it, it must be because she had to look like she was mentally unstable."
"She was admitted into Zong He, in which the incident happened soon after. The only target there could only be Ye Kun."
At this point, Lisa saw Jennie's lips moved, but before she
could say anything, Lisa stopped her.
"You don't need to know about Ye Kun! Curiosity killed the cat!"
Jennie pouted in dissatisfaction. She tugged on the safety belt and whined. "No wonder the others always said that everywhere within the Manoban Family Mansion is conspiracies. From what I can see, you're the biggest conspiracist of them all..."
Lisa was so triggered by that, he laughed. However, he did not bother arguing with Jennie.
"By that point, I've already suspected the one who brought Yanni to Luo Hai was not Nancy at all!"
"Nancy did not have loving parents in her childhood. She was actually very dependent on Yanni. According to Yan Jun's investigation in City C, Nancy had always been good to Yanni even though she wasn't a good mother!"
Jennie recalled Yanni describing Nancy. After she
arrived at Luo Hai and had become pregnant with a mysterious man's child, she started sending money to Yanni, she even dreamed onbringing her sister and mother over to stay with her!
Evidently, the real Nancy was a woman weak in resolution, so she prioritized her mother-daughter relationship much heavier than Somi had done.
"Somi and her mother had almost never stayed together, so there wasn't any camaraderie to speak of. During the Spring Festival, when she had brought Yanni to Manoban Family, I've begun to suspect due to her attitude. Combining that with her willingness to be so cruel to Yanni, I've already guessed that this woman is not Nancy!"
Jennie knew Lisa's analysis was logical, so she nodded and asked, "If you knew that she's involved in the Zong He Incident, does it mean that your protection of her was because you're not willing to let her go through it if she was Somi? What was she talking about just now..."
Even though she did not have much hope in getting the answer, Jennie wanted to know!
Lisa's profile was angular and sharp, tiny beads of sweat began forming on the bridge of his nose.
He did not look at Jennie, but his voice was gentle. "What a stubborn personality!"
It was true that Lisa had been doting on her, but he had secrets he did not wish for her to find out. Even if she had made a ruckus, he would still keep his mouth shut.
Jennie sighed, Lisa continued, "I did cover up for Somi in the Zong He Incident. However, even if I didn't, the police still wouldn't find anything to incriminate Somi. The poison was placed by Yanni!"
"With regards to Somi's identity, everything was just guesswork. We still need proofs, but the process of investigating her was not so smooth sailing. Someone erased parts of her history."
Hearing Lisa's explanation, Jennie suddenly felt that her
admission into the hospital due to her craving for spicy food, and in turn meeting Liang Zihan, had all been a blessing in disguise...
"I tried to get the precise information about Somi from Yanni, but she was being very wary about me."
Lisa paused, a never-seen-before grin appearing across his handsome face.
"Therefore, I let you go there. I'm not surprised that Yanni would be grasping at straws as she turned to you. After all, there weren't many people she could depend on in Luo Hai."
Thinking back to when Yanni had left melancholically, Jennie realized that had treated Jennie like a life-saving straw.
Since she was going to sacrifice herself, she needed to find someone trustworthy to take care of Somi and to take responsibility for everything that had happened in the Zong He Incident.
"Yanni had left you with her suicide note, it meant that she had already told you about Somi's real identity so she could take responsibility for everything. Even though you always do things behind my back, this time you helped me!"
At that, Lisa's grin became wider.
It was then that Jennie knew she was used by him, "So you knew about everything, and you still managed to keep it under wraps, what a natural-born conspiracist!"
Lisa laughed silently.. "Is this my wife praising me?"
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